单词 | red robin |
释义 | red robinn. 1. a. Any of various plants having reddish parts; esp. red campion, Silene dioica, and (U.S.) †Indian paintbrush, Castilleja coccinea (obsolete rare). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Caryophyllaceae (chickweeds and allies) > [noun] > campion and ragged robin cow-rattle14.. campion1576 behen1578 crowsoap1578 white campion1578 catchfly1597 feather-top wild campion1597 frothy poppy1597 lime-wort1597 nonsuch1597 sea campion1597 spattling poppy (also campion)1597 Greek rose1601 lychnis1601 knap-bottle1640 moss pink1641 Lobel's catchfly1664 red robin1678 moss campion1690 red campion1728 round robin1741 Silene1751 Nottingham catchfly1762 silenal1836 Robin Hood1844 thunder-flower1853 gunpowder weed1860 sea-catchfly1864 robin redbreast1880 poppy1886 thunderbolt1886 rattleweed1893 cancer1896 bladder-campion- 1678 E. R. Experienced Farrier ii. 66 Shepherds pouch, Red Robin, the seeds of Sorrel or Roots. 1797 R. Polwhele Hist. Devonshire I. ii. 5 The general mildness of our winters is seen in our daily rides, in which we may constantly see in blow, the daisy, the white and red robin, the white and blue periwinkle, [etc.]. 1826 W. Darlington Florula Cestrica 72 E[uchroma] coccinea... Painted Cup. Red Robin. 1858 National Mag. 3 315/1 The campions are..all robins. The rose or red campion is the red robin, the white is the white robin. 1891 ‘Q’ Noughts & Crosses 88 My feet trod on bluebells and red-robins. 1994 Harrowsmith June 53/2 I found Herb Robert..blanketing the steep bank of a ravine on our Cape Breton farm. Also known as Red Robin, it is annual but self-sows so readily that..it can be regarded as a perennial. ΚΠ 1789 Ann. Agric. 11 288 The General knew an old wet meadow that was..laid down for grass, nothing but Red Robin came, and it continues covered with that, and nothing else, to this day. 1823 W. Cobbett Let. 14 Apr. in Trans. Soc. Arts 41 104 Agrostis Canina; or, Brown Bent Grass... The Fiorin grass, the yellow-oat-grass, and the brown-bent, are all called couch-grass; except that the latter is, in Sussex, called red robin. 2. = red rust n. at red adj. and n. Compounds 1f(c)(i). Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > fungal > rust disease or condition of having rustOE rustinga1398 canker?c1425 black rust1785 red gum1794 red rust1806 rust disease1816 red robin1821 red rag1841 crown rust1868 rustiness1882 stem rust1899 1821 Times 11 Sept. 3/5 The quality of the wheat is excessively various; in certain districts being very much affected by the mildew and red robin; in others not at all. 1850 Eclectic Rev. Oct. 495 Ask the farmer what he thinks of..the ‘rust’ and ‘red robin’, and there will be unfolded such a tale of woe, such a history of ruin and calamity. 1863 N. Brit. Rev. May 375 The leaf and chaff of the cereals are subject to a disease called rust, red-rag or red-robin (Uredo Rubigo). 1948 W. A. R. Dillon-Weston & R. E. Taylor Plant in Health & Dis. i. 2 On wheat the disease that turned the green corn rusty-red in colour was known as Rust or Red Robin. 3. a. British regional. The European robin, Erithacus rubecula. ΚΠ 1858 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 28 299 A small bird about the size of the red robin of England. 1882 J. H. Nodal & G. Milner Gloss. Lancs. Dial.: Pt. II 225 Red-robin, the redbreast. ΚΠ 1890 Cent. Dict. at Robin1 Red robin, the scarlet tanager. (Local, U.S.). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1678 |
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